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I have a shell script that is supposed to run via cronjob on Yosemite, also when no user is logged in. I discovered the cron has to be edited with sudo crontab -e to do that.
The script connects to ...

I have a MacBook Pro from work. To keep my browsing history separate, I use 2 different browsers. (Chrome = Work, Safari = Fun)
I want to make my default browswer Chrome while at work (9 am to 6pm), ...

I would like to run a Python script each time it finishes and I think I can do this with cron but I am not sure how to do it.
The idea is each time the Python scripts ends, it will have to run again ...

Some time ago I set up a cron job that would run a shell script to update my dynamic DNS. I've since done the proper Mac thing and switched over to launchd to handle that job and any other scheduled ...

I'm looking for a way to log crontab file writes. A friend of mine pranked me, and did something that occasionally adds */5 * * * * say "deranged" "The current time is `date`"
I haven't been able to ...

How can I configure cron to send a local email only to the crontab owner with the cron job output.
This worked with Lion, could check the cron emails by just running mail in the terminal so I don't ...

I'm currently trying to get a missing cronjob runner script thing to work, but it was written for Arch Linux, which is pretty different from Mac OS X, and one of the things that it tries to do is run ...

I'm trying to run an app from crontab at 3 in the morning. My 2010 MacBook Pro running OS X Lion 10.7.5 is usually turned off at this time of the night, so I'm setting Energy Saver's scheduled wake up ...

I have scheduled some jobs in crontab which are to be run one by one, at some specific time. My script for crontab is :
15 10 * * * /Users/sri/files/BatchFF.sh
45 11 * * * /Users/sri/files/BatchGC.sh
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I have a couple of cron jobs that I would like to log output to the Notification app in Mountain Lion. I've searched and and figured out how to log cron output by editing the plist file, but nothing ...

MacOs 10.8.2
I have 2 applescripts shown below. They are arranged in one shell script to run one after another by using osascript (just to simplify the example).
Everything works fine when starting ...

I have systems running Mac OS X 10.5.8 and 10.6.8 that I would like to schedule some cron jobs for with the Cronnix GUI application.
I prefer those computers be asleep until the scheduled jobs start. ...

I'm trying to execute a shell script as a cron job. The problem is that my script needs to be run as a super user. I tried it with just writing sudo infront of the command in my crontab file, but it ...